Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:05:22 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Password on command line with SCP Message-ID: <20070120160522.2a429cec@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <009b01c73c5d$a1d11dd0$0300020a@mickey> References: <009b01c73c5d$a1d11dd0$0300020a@mickey>
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On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:38:44 -0800 "Don O'Neil" <don@lizardhill.com> wrote: > > Is there any way to pass the password for an SCP command via the > command line as a switch? I'd like to embed SCP in a script and pass > the password once through a command line input from the master > script... By defauly any time I use the -B mode it says passwords are > required, and without -B it asks for the password after the command > starts to execute. Can you not just use: <username>:<password>@<host> in place of the hostname?
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